Synonyms of the word

distich

• n. (prosody) A couplet, a two line stanza making complete sense.
• n. Any couplet.
• adj. distichous.

brace

• n. (obsolete) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
• n. (obsolete) A measurement of length, originally representing a person's outstretched arms.
• n. A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
• n. That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
• n. A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
• n. A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
• n. The state of being braced or tight; tension.
• n. Harness; warlike preparation.
• n. (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words…
• n. A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally and then other things, but rarely…
• n. A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces,…
• n. (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally;…
• n. (Britain, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or…
• n. (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
• v. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
• v. (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient…
• v. To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
• v. To confront with questions, demands or requests.
• v. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
• v. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
• v. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

couple

• n. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
• n. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
• n. (informal) A small number.
• n. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic…
• n. (physics) Two forces that are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction (and acting along parallel…
• n. (architecture) A couple-close.
• n. (obsolete) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
• adj. (informal, US) Two or (a) small number of.
• v. (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
• v. (transitive, dated) To join in wedlock; to marry.
• v. (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.

couplet

• n. (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
• n. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

deuce

• n. (card games) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
• n. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
• n. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
• n. The number two.
• n. (tennis) A tie in which one player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. A '32 Ford.
• n. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common…
• n. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
• n. (slang) A piece of excrement.
• n. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

duad

• n. A pair or couple.
• n. (mathematics) an unordered pair.
• n. (astrology) dwadasamsa.

duet

• n. (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce…
• n. (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
• n. A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
• v. (intransitive, zoology, of pairs of animals) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
• v. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
• v. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.

duo

• n. Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially, those who perform music together.
• n. Any pair of two people.
• n. Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.

dyad

• n. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
• n. (music) any set of two different pitch classes.
• n. A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
• n. (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

pair

• n. Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
• n. Two people in a relationship, partnership (especially sexual) or friendship.
• n. Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale…
• n. A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
• n. (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better…
• n. (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
• n. (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
• n. (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
• n. (slang) A pair of breasts.
• n. (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of…
• n. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote…
• n. (archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
• n. (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually…
• v. (transitive) To group into sets of two.
• v. (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
• v. (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question…
• v. (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
• v. (computing) to form wireless connection between to devices.
• v. (obsolete) To impair.

span

• n. The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.
• n. Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.
• n. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or…
• n. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
• n. (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope…
• n. (obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar…
• n. (mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something.
• v. To traverse the distance between.
• v. To cover or extend over an area or time period.
• v. To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
• v. (mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
• v. (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
• v. To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
• v. (archaic, nonstandard) simple past tense of spin.

twain

• num. (dated) two.
• v. (transitive) To part in twain; divide; sunder.

two

• num. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••). Ordinal: second.
• num. Describing a set or group with two components.
• n. The digit/figure 2.
• n. (US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
• n. A child aged two.
• n. The playing cards featuring two pips.

twosome

• adj. Being or constituting a pair; two.
• adj. Twofold; double.
• adj. Performed by two individuals.
• n. A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
• n. A dance for two people.

yoke

• n. Frame around the neck, and related senses.
• n. Pair of harnessed draught animals, and related senses.
• n. Extended uses and quantities.
• v. To link or to join.
• v. To unite, to connect.
• v. To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
• n. Misspelling of yolk.